Screenwriting Basics: Adapting your Book into a Screenplay

Have you always wished your novel could be turned into a movie?

Join us in our upcoming screenwriting workshop on how to turn your book into a screenplay! In this class Michael Elliot will address how to write your logline, story theme, outline, first draft, rewriting and other parts of the writing process:

We will begin with:

Why Hollywood loves adapting novels into movies.
Why movie adaptations of popular books are so often disappointing.
The major differences between novels and screenplays.
How to condense a 300-page novel into a 100-page screenplay.

Then we will move into understanding of screenplay formatting basics such as:

Scene Headings (slug lines)
Narrative Description
Incorporating dialogue

And finally, we will end with:

Developing and hopefully selling your screenplay
Paid professional coverage
How to submit to screenwriting contests
How to pitch your screenplay - to whom and where to start

Date: Friday, May 27th,

11:00am - 12:30pm Mountain Time

Online Zoom Class

Registrants will receive a recording in addition to the live class.

Potential future webinars could include more detailed presentations on screenwriting structure, outlining, and genre.